Page:The Czar, A Tale of the Time of the First Napleon.djvu/175

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ALEXANDER.
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"An Arctic day that will not see
  A sunset till its summer's gone."

Those were indeed the beams of the sun which flooded the whole horizon, gladdening the heart of every living thing; but the sun itself was still unseen, because as yet unrisen. Its light was there; its glory was yet to come.